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Is your pooch lonely and craving some action? Well fret no more, the British Kennel Club is here to help you pimp your bitch/dawg. They have set up Mate Select, a online dating service for dogs who want to meet that special someone. The thinking behind the site is that dog owners will be able to find good matches for their dogs to ensure pedigree puppies are healthy and free from genetic problems. It's an interesting move from the Kennel Club whose chairman Ronnie Irving and other high profile members in 2008 admitted to promote incestral inbreeding (you can watch him say it at 21:45min below) in a controversial BBC documentary called "Pedigree Dogs Exposed." The film was so shocking to many that BBC decided to drop the annual Crufts dog show from it's schedule. The Kennel Club claims that the new online dating service will "promote in every way, the general improvement of dogs" and will also connect pedigree dog breeders.If you have a dog and you haven't watch this documentary - you need to now.
Is your pooch lonely and craving some action? Well fret no more, the British Kennel... more
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The puppy equivalent of Oscar season is over for another year. Last month we had the Westminster Dog Show - the highlight of every American puppy's calendar. Yesterday Crufts, the biggest and most prestigious dog show in the UK finished. And the winner of Crufts this year was a stunning black Flatcoated Retreiver named Jet.
http://www.pups-seeking-homes.com/blog/home/entry/crufts_winner_flatcoated_retrieverThe puppy equivalent of Oscar season is over for another year. Last month we had the... more
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The BBC announced on Friday it would not screen next year's Crufts, Britain's premier dog show, saying it had suspended coverage over concern about the welfare of the animals.
Earlier this year a BBC documentary reported there were serious issues over the health of some pedigree dogs because of years of inbreeding to produce certain physical traits.The BBC announced on Friday it would not screen next year's Crufts,... more
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Poor doggies! Breeders are "playing God with dogs" in an effort to maintain purebred bloodlines, responding to demands of the dog show circuit. BBC One is airing a documentary on pedigree dogs tonight that exposes the diseases, deformities and suffering that plague many of Britain's five million pedigree dogs. Inbreeding is common practice, resulting in a "legacy of life-threatening ills, from agonising brain conditions to epilepsy, heart murmurs and cancers." The documentary shows some shocking scenes, prompting BBC to consider ending its partnership with Crufts dog show. Do you think there should be rules against inbreeding dogs for shows? Could this be the beginning of the end of parading your pedigree pooch?Poor doggies! Breeders are "playing God with dogs" in an effort to maintain... more
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A mystery top dog could be the reason a bookmaker has stopped taking bets on who will win first prize at Crufts. William Hill took the unprecedented step of closing its book on Crufts before the show had even started.A mystery top dog could be the reason a bookmaker has stopped taking bets on who will... more
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